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and with her garment open from both sides, and bathing with men, and ignores it.
The Talmud asks: Can it enter your mind that the baraita is referring to a wife who bathes with men? Even a man of the lowest moral character would not allow his wife to act in this manner. Rather, the baraita means that she bathes in a place where men often bathe.
The baraita continues: With regard to this kind of wife, it is a mitzva by Torah law to divorce her, as it is stated: “Because he has found some unseemly matter in her, and he writes her a scroll of severance, and gives it in her hand, and he sends her out of his house…And she goes and becomes anoth
If the second man merits, he will send her out, as it is stated in the following verse: “And the latter husband hates her…and he sends her out of his house” (Deuteronomy 24:3). And if not, she will bury him, as it is stated in the same verse: “Or if the latter husband dies.” It is appropriate for h
§ The prophet Malachi states in rebuke of those who divorce their wives: “For I hate sending away, says YHWH, the God of Israel” (Malachi 2:16). R' Yehuda says: The verse means that if you hate your wife, send her away. Do not continue living with a woman whom you hate. R' Yoḥanan says: The verse